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Anglo-Saxon deities are in general poorly attested, and much is inferred about the religion of the Anglo-Saxons from what is known of other Germanic peoples' religions. The written record from the period between the Anglo-Saxon invasion of the British Isles to the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons is very sparse, and most of what is known comes from later Christian writers such as Bede ...
The gods of the polytheistic religion practiced in England during the Old English period, before the conversion to Christianity. Some of these gods survived into the folklore of the modern era such as Woden , Weyland and Wade , though many others were forgotten.
The gods and goddesses of the polytheistic religion practiced in England during the Old English period, before the conversion to Christianity. Some of these deities survived into the folklore of the modern era such as Woden , Weyland and Wade , though many others were forgotten.
The right half of the front panel of the 7th-century Franks Casket, depicting the Anglo-Saxon (and wider Germanic) legend of Wayland the Smith. Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th ...
Anglo-Saxon deities; List of Norse gods and goddesses; Greek deities (see also List of Greek mythological figures, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos) Neoplatonic triad; Hungarian deities; Lusitani deities; Paleo-Balkan deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian) List of Roman deities; Sami ...
In Anglo-Saxon paganism, Rheda (Latinized from Old English *Hrêðe or *Hrêða, possibly meaning "the famous" or "the victorious" [1]) is a goddess connected with the month '"Rhedmonth"' (from Old English *Hrēþmōnaþ). Rheda is attested solely by Bede in his 8th century work De temporum ratione.
The goddesses of the polytheistic religion practiced in England during the Old English period, before the conversion to Christianity. Pages in category "Anglo-Saxon goddesses" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.